Dollar Shave Club cuts the hassle of shaving

Shaving is the DMV waiting room of the grooming process: It’s expensive, it takes forever and you’re usually bleeding a little by the time it’s over.

Then there’s the female shaving market, which is filled with eyeroll-worthy advertising and questionable products. Venus Embrace? Soleil Savvy? Intuition Plus? Hydro Silk? Am I in the shave aisle at CVS or the back room at Bare Necessities?

Of course, we ladies have the added option of getting waxed by a stern Colombian woman in the broom closet of a nail salon, but that, too, boasts a price tag that’s hard to justify. Should I really be spending $75 to become hairless? At least the nice salons have some white wine on hand to alleviate the pain of denying our very physiological evolution.

You can also get your hair lasered off, I guess, if you’re basically a millionaire, but don’t lasers have better things to do?

If you’re looking for an inexpensive and almost painfully trendy way to deal with your unwanted hair situations, check out DollarShaveClub.com. Their motto is “Our blades are – – – – great,” which makes me trust them substantially more than I trust Schick’s shtick: “Finally, a family of razors that understands you.”

Strong words from a company that manufactures a strawberry-scented razor.

Dollar Shave Club does what it says it will: The company sends you a well designed handle and five cartridges for just $1 a month, though you can get fancier versions for $6 and $10 a month.

How are they able to make such quality products at such a low price? Some sort of hipster magic, I guess. Does it matter? This company doesn’t promise you health and happiness, just hairlessness at a bargain.